*I will try to highlight new dates and information with red text.
November 27 - 29, 2013: No school - Thanksgiving.
December 11, 2013: Early release: Professional development.
December 23, 2013 - January 3, 2014: Winter break - no school.
January 6, 2014: First day back to school.
January 16, 2014: End of the second quarter. Please avoid appointments this week as I'll be assessing.
January 17, 2014: No school, teacher grading day.
What We Learned This Week
I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to meet with so many families this week. It is a real joy to partner with so many invested and committed families. I'm lucky to serve the Windermere community!
We collaborated with Mrs. Walther's pm kindergarten class this week to introduce informational texts. We spent a lot of time exploring informational texts and informational text elements (table of contents, glossary, index, text boxes, charts, etc.). The many post-it notes you can see are students' notes to share with their young partners. The class then shared their picture books with their kindergarten buddies. They did a fantastic job and we're looking forward to sharing with them again. Anytime we understand a concept well enough to teach it, we've really internalized the new knowledge.
